A mentally ill man imprisoned after stealing $1 and a hat claims in a civil rights lawsuit that Illinois prison officials tortured him by putting him in solitary confinement for two decades, where he self-mutilated himself, including slicing off his testicle and hanging it on his cell door.

The 10th Circuit affirmed summary judgmentof qualified immunity for Kansas prison officials who kept Richard Grissom in solitary confinement for nearly 20 years, “because at the time of Grissom’s confinement there was no clearly established law that would have alerted them that his asserted constitutional rights were being violated.”

Two years into its legal fight over Georgia prison inmates who suffer for years in solitary confinement, the Southern Center for Human Rights laid out an expert’s findings about the practice in a letter to the state.

A man with mental problems who spent nearly his entire 13 months in solitary confinement filed a federal class action against Chelan County, Washington, and top officials, claiming their treatment of troubled inmates violates the Eight Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment.

The only person convicted in the United States in connection with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is suing President Donald Trump over conditions at a federal prison, where he alleges he experiences “psychological torture” while kept in total isolation.

Two weeks after condemning the harsh treatment of juveniles in Wisconsin detention centers — “Ted Kaczynski has less restrictive solitary confinement than youth at Lincoln Hills,” he had said — a federal judge finalized a series of reforms that will begin taking effect on July 21.

A federal judge on Friday ordered the Wisconsin Department of Corrections and civil-rights attorneys to work together to agree on changes to the state’s juvenile prison system, which has been the target of multiple lawsuits this year.

The family of Antonio Cowser, an inmate who died in 2011 of dehydration and lack of food at the Milwaukee County jail, became the latest Wednesday to sue embattled Sheriff David Clarke Jr. for wrongful death.

With a year to go before the drug lord goes on trial, attorneys for Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman fought in court Friday to remove a literal barrier separating them from their client.

A federal judge ruled that the Virginia Department of Corrections must face claims from an autistic man who says he was subjected to inhumane conditions while being held in solitary confinement for months solely because of his disorder.